The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-12-15
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Resources OF Edlson'e Labora-
tory--What the New Photograph
Is Expected to Do.

10 ENpoCtou W OOs
New York Evening Post.
Right outside OF Llewellyn Park, in
Orange, New Jersey, Thomas A. Edi-
son, the inventor, is now building
what promises to be the most perfect
physical and chemical experimental
laboratory in the world. His labora-
tory at Menlo Park long ago grew too
restricted for the needs Of the large
number OF expert workmen whom he
keeps constantly employed in carry
ing out the suggestions which he makes
to them. For years he has wished to
build such a laboratory as he is now
finishing, and he confesses that this
use OF money is that which has given
him the most pleasure OF recent years.
The new laboratory buildings are
within sight OF the pleasant country
house which Mr.. Pedder, the former
cashier OF Messrs. Arnold & Consta-
BILE, built at great expense, and which
Mr.. Edison bought last year from
that firm. The main buildings con.
sist of three separate structures, each
one about one hundred feet long by
fifty wide, four stories high, and built
OF brick in the most substantial man
ner. Mr.. Edison hopes to begin work
in them in few days. They
are supplied with every device for ex-
perimental work which the scientific
mind can imagine. The buildings will
be heated by steam and lighted by
electricity.
Steam power will be supplied to all
the machinery; dozen separate lab
oratories will be fitted up with every
known apparatus for experimental
work in phsics or chemistry, and
scores OF experts, brought from all
parts OF the world, will stand ready
to place their knowledge at Edison's
disposal.
In the materials with which the
store.rooms are to be stocked, there
have been thousands and thousands
of dollars spent, and II Edison does
not have every needed article used in
his science, it will not be the fault OF
his assistants. He has given direc'
tions to 60 through half q dozen works
on chemistry, physis and mechanics
and make list OF every article speci'
fed For instance, in turning over
Watts Chemistry one comes across
materials at every page never heard
OF outside OF the most complete chem
ical laboratories; all these Edison
must have if money can obtain them.
He will have every kind OF iron and
steel, every kind OF known wood,
every kind OF glass, every metal in all
their different shapes, every stone,
every variety OF clay, chalk, every
vegetable substance that may be OF
use, from the frs of the Arctic regions
to the giant grasses OF the Amazon.
Half q dozen times in Edison's life
his work has been brought to stand
still by the lack OF some material
known to exist, but which could not
be obtained without long delay and
great cost. He had to send to Japan
to get bamboo fiber with which he now
makes the carbons for his lamps. At
present he is interrupted in his work
upon the apparatus for generating
electricity from heat, by the impossi-
bility OF finding nickel in sufficient
quantities in this country; he has
cabled to England, and has had to
suspend operations until the material
arrives. At any moment he may re-
ouire some almost unheard-of materi.
al, and he aims by this wonderful col
lection, the list OF which already
reaches eight thousand items, to pro-
vide against annoying delays.
When found in the laboratory OF his
lamp factory in Newark, from which
four thousand lamps day are now
sent out, Edison said that the COM
merciai phonograph is now the most
interesting thing in the world to him.
although it is perfectly finished, and
tools are being made for its manufact-
ure upon q large scale. The stories
which Edison tells OF what his per-
fected photograph will do are so ex-
traordinary that he scarcely expects
people to believe him, and yet he says
that the apparatus is so simple, so Ell
fectiye, and so Immediately useful
that he is certain of it's rapid intro
duction into BUSINESSMAN more GER
tain than he was OF the universal
adoption OF the telephone as q bust.
ness instrument. Edison said OF his
newly-6nished photographs; .
"You know that finished the first
photograph more than ten years ago.
1t remained more or less OF toy.
The germ OF something wonderful was
perfectly distinct, but i tried the i'm.
possible with it, and when the electric
iinht business assumed commercial